MINNEAPOLIS — Anderson Brothers Construction Company of Brainerd LLC, a construction and paving company located in Brainerd, Minnesota, has agreed to pay $1,295,610 to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act and the Minnesota False Claims Act from 2017 through 2022, according to a news release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota.

Anderson Brothers was accused of routinely and knowingly falsifying test results to make its paving material appear to be higher quality than it was, and submitting those falsified results to the government in seeking payments for road paving in Minnesota.

The United States and the State of Minnesota alleged that, as a condition of payment for federally funded road paving contracts, Anderson Brothers was required to perform certain quality tests of its paving material and submit the results to the government, and that Anderson Brothers falsified the results and submitted them to the government to receive financial incentives for superior quality paving material and avoid deductions for lower-quality material.

As a result of those false test results, the United States and the State of Minnesota alleged that the government funded payments to Anderson Brothers for unearned incentives and Anderson Brothers avoided financial deductions that would have occurred had Anderson Brothers submitted truthful test results.

Of the $1,295,610 civil settlement, the United States will receive $660,761 and the State of Minnesota will receive...

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